This week there are three tournaments in Baku (WTA), Los Angeles (ATP) and Kitzbuhel (ATP); however the main focus is on the impending Olympics, which begin this Saturday. Wimbledon is already shaping up with many of the top players already in London. The 64-player draw (one less round than the Grand Slams) will be completed…
This weeks tournaments wrapped up yesterday with Dominika Cibulkova winning in Carlsbad and Polona Hercog retaining her title in Bastad. Cibulkova beat Marion Bartoli, 6-1 7-5 to claim her second career title and move up to number 13 in the world rankings. Hercog beat Mathilde Johansson, 0-6 6-4 7-5 in one of those crazy chokefest…
Dominika Cibulkova Lets take a look at what has happened over the past few days and towards todays finals: WTA Carlsbad: Three of the four quarter-finals in San Diego reached epic proportions in the soaring heat; Jelena Jankovic wasted two match points against Yung-Jan Chan, 6-7 7-6 7-5, Marion Bartoli survived Christina McHale, 7-5 4-6…
It was announced today that Wimbledon will be moved back by a week in 2015, therefore providing an extra week of grass court tennis! I think this is an excellent move because the grass court season has always been far too short and it allows players more times to get ready for the big one…
Marin Cilic Here are some of my predictions for the numerous quarter-finals to be played out tomorrow: ATP Hamburg: A strong line-up has made the quarter-finals with the highlights being the first quarter-final between Kohlschreiber and Almagro and the all-German clash between Haas and Mayer. Predictions: Philipp Kohlschreiber to beat Nicolas Almagro in 3 sets…
Pavlyuchenkova The tournament in Carlsbad, San Diego has seen the completion of the first round where Melanie Oudin saved two match points to defeat Sloane Stephens, 1-6 7-6 6-0. It is one of the those matches that can be summed up by just reading the scoreline! Stephens is a great talent, but she will have…
It is another bumper week on both the ATP and WTA calendars as tournaments are crammed into this three week period before the Olympics. I have managed to secure some more tennis tickets for the Olympics so will have a number of reports to give over the coming weeks 🙂 Anyway lets take a look…
Sorana Cirstea produced one of her best performances this year as she beat Dominika Cibulkova in the quarter-finals of Stanford, 6-7 6-2 6-0. Cirstea hit 45 winners to 23 unforced errors although the match was overshadowed by a crazy first set dominated by some appalling officiating that consistently went against Cirstea… just take a look…
Just a quick note to say what a great achievement from Laura Robson to make her first ever WTA semi-final this week on the clay in Palermo. She defeated the world number 27, Roberta Vinci in the second round and backed that up with a tough win over Carla Suarez Navarro, 6-4 2-6 6-3. She…
Jelena Jankovic Here is a quick round-up of what has been happening so far this week: WTA Stanford: Serena Williams won her opening match against Nicole Gibbs, 6-2 6-1 to set up a quarter-final match with Chanelle Scheepers; however the number 4 seed, Jelena Jankovic was not so lucky as she lost yet another first…
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